In response to the Empress's question, Granny Kong hurriedly replied, "The imperial physician said that the Second Prince's illness was caused by cold entering his body, resulting in blood stasis. The fact that he vomited blood actually relieved the cold ailment, which is a good thing."
Empress Sun put aside her last doubts and nodded, "It seems that Princess Chang Le is indeed a skilled physician."
Empress Sun automatically attributed Yun Hao's recovery to Su Ruojin.
Early the next morning.
Yun Hao came to bid farewell to Empress Sun, saying, "Mother, I have troubled you."
Empress Sun looked at him with affection and said, "Hao'er, what are you saying? Nobody wants to be sick. Go back to your residence and rest well. Just don't forget what your mother told you."
"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, I understand. Thank you, Your Majesty."
Empress Sun watched as the eunuch helped the weak Yun Hao away, her eyes filled with an unfathomable darkness.
Yun Hao returned to the prince's residence and drank a bowl of porridge to relieve his hunger.
Not long after he put down his bowl, the gatekeeper announced that the princess had arrived.
Su Ruojin took Yun Hao's pulse, wrote down a prescription, and handed it to him. "Have someone boil this medicine. Soak it in the broth for two hours every morning and evening to expel the toxins from your body. You need to soak it for a month."
"Your poison is no ordinary poison. If it weren't for the fact that some ingredients in the Dream Pill happened to clash with it, I wouldn't have been able to detect its existence. I don't know if you call it bad luck or good luck."
Yun Hao gave a wry smile. "I guess I was lucky. Thinking about it that way makes me feel better."
Su Ruojin smiled, "You're quite optimistic."
"If I weren't optimistic, I would have been killed by this cold palace long ago." A trace of pain welled up in Yun Hao's eyes. He always felt that he was the one who had dragged down Consort Le.
He recently went to the Empress's palace without letting Consort Le know, so as not to worry his mother.
“Actually, your illness isn’t necessarily a bad thing,” Su Ruojin said.
Yun Hao nodded. "Indeed, it actually helped me out. There are some things I still need to finalize."
Just then, someone knocked on the door. "Second Prince."
"Come in."
The person who came was Ali, Yun Hao's trusted confidant.
Ali saw Su Ruojin there and hesitated to speak.
"Just say what you want to say."
Having heard his master say this, Ali no longer concealed anything. "Master, I have received a secret report that Wang Jin, the governor of Qingzhou, has secretly led his troops into the capital."
"Oh~ so you were waiting here." Yun Hao raised an eyebrow slightly.
Su Ruojin was unfamiliar with the officials of Yunqi, so Yun Hao explained, "Wang Jin, the governor of Qingzhou, is the younger brother of Consort Xian and also Yun Shao's uncle."
"He's trying to force me to abdicate?" Su Ruojin immediately realized.
"From the perspective of the third brother, he has already controlled the emperor with medicine. With the troops under the command of the governor of Qingzhou, he may be able to succeed in forcing the emperor to abdicate with a surprise move."
"So you had someone keeping an eye on Qingzhou from the very beginning?" Su Ruojin understood.
Otherwise, how could Yun Hao have known about the secret matter of the Qingzhou governor leading troops into the capital?
"This was something Senior Brother Xiao told me back then, to prevent things from happening in the first place." Yun Hao readily admitted, "My dear mother is using me as bait to lure Yun Shao into making a move. What a clever trick of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."
"What are you going to do?"
On one side are Empress Sun and the eldest prince, and on the other side are Consort Xian and the third prince. Yun Hao, a powerless and insignificant person, is caught in the middle and seems destined to be sacrificed.
"Ali, pass the message on to Empress Sun."
"Yes, Second Prince."
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